Topics in Kansas History: Cultural & Ethnic Groups

African Americans

Find resources on African American history in Kansas.

See the Brown v. Board of Education portion of our site for resources related to the landmark Supreme Court case.

• African American Newspapers
• Battle Flags of Kansas
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Burnett, Abraham
• "Charles Henry Langston and the African American Struggle in Kansas," Kansas History, Winter 1999
• Douglas, Aaron
• First Kansas Colored Infantry
• Fletcher, Arthur A.
• Hughes, Langston
• Jessye, Eva
• Kansans of African Descent
• "Langston Hughes of Kansas," Kansas History, Spring 1980
• Nicodemus
• Parker, Charlie
• "Race Relations in the Sunflower State, A Review Essay." Kansas History, Autumn 2002
• "Recognition, At Last: The Quindaro Townsite," Kansas Preservation, November/December 2002
• Woodard, Lynette

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Banner, NAACP Civil Rights March
• Civil War: First Kansas Colored Infantry flag
• Civil War: Second Kansas Colored Infantry flag
• Civil War: Keep the Flag to the Front (an online exhibit)
• Exoduster flier (African American migration to Kansas)
• Newspapers, African American
• Slave shackle

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• African Americans Bibliography

Museum Store

• Books on African Americans

Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibit Service (KITES)

• Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds
• Brown vs. Board of Education, In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality
• Kansans of African Descent: Selected Portraits
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
• The Tradition of Blues in Wichita: African Americans Tell Their Story

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• Roads From Fear To Freedom: The Kansas Underground Railroad, Autumn 1996
• Knowing No Fear: Buffalo Soldiers of the American West, Winter 1996

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Charles Henry Langston and the African American Struggle in Kansas," Winter 1999, article also online
• "Fort Riley's Black Soldiers and the Army's Changing Role in the West, 1867-1885," Autumn 1999
• "Hoeing Their Own Row: Black Agriculture and the Agrarian Ideal in Kansas, 1880-1920," Autumn 1999
• "Image and Reality on the Kansas Prairie: `Pap' Singleton's Cherokee County Colony," Summer 1996
• "'Our Schools Must Be Open to All Classes of Citizens': The Desegregation of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, 1938," Summer 1996
• "Stories from the Heartland: African American Experiences in Wichita, Kansas," Winter 1998
• "Taking the Plunge: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Desegregation in Lawrence, Kansas, 1960," Autumn 1997
• Welcoming 'Pa' on the Kaw: Kansas's 'Colored' Militia and the 1864 Price Raid, Summer 2002

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Equal Education: The Fight, The Right," December 2003/January 2004
• "Smarts: African American Creative Genius in the Arts," December 2001/January 2002

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Cultural & Ethnic Groups
• Field Trips: Cultural & Ethnic Groups